Guild Wars 2

First off what are people using for leveling revenant? After trying everything out I’m down to just S/S with shiro and mace/x for stacking swiftness in jalis between places. Anyone else found something more effective? Also what traits do you use? There seems to be a lot of crit damage stacking but my crit chance is abysmal so it doesn’t feel worth.

Secondly I don’t really feel the group potential with revenant so far. needless to say I haven’t tried it much but I feel like it focuses so much on itself and the damage isn’t even that crazy. Perhaps herald makes it more viable in group PvE content? In the end that’s probably what I’ll spend 80% of the time on.

On a final note, so far I haven’t found the class to be that engaging. Like I pretty much only use phase traversal, unrelenting assaults and impossible odds. The rotation seems pretty lame. What do I fill the time with inbetween unrelenting assault cd?

I’m using S/A+Hammer/Staff for leveling with Shiro/Jalis, Retribution, Invocation, Devastation and mix of Cavalier/Berserker stats.

It’s fun and can carry like most of the fights with it’s ability to remove breakbars alone (which is huge jn HoT). Besides that, it’s hell lot of fun and I love toggling new action camera on when going into Hammer.

What’s the action camera you speak of? Also I just noticed the somewhat gamechanging fact that when you change stance your energy goes back up to 50. This makes the gameplay way more vivid!

I use PvP – Halloween track to level my Rev, close to level 80 now. I’m level 75.

I leveled the Revenant with tomes and crafting, so I can’t give you tips about that. However, I did unlock the Herald which has huge group support. The Herald gives you a F2 mechanic that gives you and your allies 50% more boon duration. The legend that accompanies it is Glint. Her skills are all upkeep skills that give out boons to you and your allies. There’s regeneration, fury, might, swiftness and protection. They can be activated again for an active skill, but most of the time I would try to have the upkeep skill up (especially the F2, fury and might).

Just a tip for getting the heropoints for the Herald: get another armor set with traveler runes. The 25% movement speed and the 15% increased boon duration help a lot traveling the map. You probably have to explore Tyria if you want to have the Herald, since a lot of heropoints in HoT maps are gated behind masteries.

Goodluck!

Thanks. Herald is what really intrigues me about revenant, too bad it’s so far away. But then again if it’s as amazing as you say it is I guess the reward will be very sweet once i do obtain it. Meanwhile I’ll grind away with Jalis and Shiroh